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 Topic A at the recent Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Annual Meeting (SIFMA) was what to do about the fastest-growing communications phenomenon since the invention of the Internet: the explosion in social networking. Whenever compliance and communications come tog...Nov. 6, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 387 |
 I am consulting now days and my iPhone is used for both personal and professional purposes. Several weeks ago I complained in an article about having to use my personal phone number and voice mail for business. A kind reader suggested that I try the new Google Voice service. I did and ...Nov. 6, 2009 11:45 AM EST Reads: 241 |
 For many years I have developed and managed marketing campaigns for mobile software companies. I ran seminars, Pay Per Click campaigns, white paper distributions, email blasts, webinars, Web 2.0 strategies etc. As a result, I am very interested in seeing which mobile software companies...Nov. 6, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 276 |
 If you haven’t addressed the first two steps in the lead generation planning process - establishing the right mindset and building a strong roster of stakeholders - you may want to go back and review those before you read this. After all, if you’re a smart lead generation marketer, yo...Nov. 6, 2009 10:30 AM EST Reads: 227 |
 Infrastructure 2.0, from a purely developmental standpoint, is about APIs. It’s about offering up the functionality and capabilities of a wide variety of infrastructure – network, storage, and application network – to be externally controlled, integrated, and leveraged for whatever pur...Nov. 5, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 416 |
 Most CPA firms have yet to establish a social media policy, as they are likely considering the best approach to bring social media into the marketing mix. Truth be told, there is no hard and fast rule on how companies should approach this. The accounting industry is no exception, and f...Nov. 4, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 238 |
 Last week I wrote an article pondering the benefits of using my iPhone to capture the bar code on grocery store products, using the integrated digital camera, and then have my iPhone use its GPS coordinates to look at the prices of this product in other grocery store locations that are...Nov. 4, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 202 |
 This week I begin a new series of video screencasts for Dell’s IT Expert Voice Web site. The site has all sorts of useful information for corporate IT folks that are interested in migrating and using Windows 7, and my humble part will be to produce a regular series of videos similar to...Nov. 4, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 287 |
 The new Moyea Video4Web Converter V2.1 with optimized menu display pattern, fast video codec encoding speed and perfect bug-fixings, makes video to flash video conversion the easiest and quickest ever.Nov. 4, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 316 |
 The term Enterprise 2.0 is receiving a lot of press these days (see definition of Enterprise 2.0). In this article we are going to discuss possible use cases for Enterprise 2.0 in the context of enterprise mobile applications. Carl Frappaolo and Dan Keldsen defined Enterprise 2.0 in th...Nov. 4, 2009 10:30 AM EST Reads: 267 |
 Recently, I've seen a lot of studies about the lack of success of small businesses in social media. In one eMarketer article alone they reference not one but two of them: Small businesses are not hitting it off with social media, according to an August 2009 study from Citibank. More t...Nov. 3, 2009 11:16 AM EST Reads: 468 |
 In his October 2009 Newsletter, James Bowles, Washington DC’s leading Executive Business Coach and career transition consultant, outlines the f...Nov. 2, 2009 06:04 AM EST Reads: 245 |
 Embedding tags in books is probably the most obvious way to connect print content with online content so it's surprising more book publishers are not following Rough Guide's lead. Their new coffee table book, Earthbound: a Rough Guide to the World in Pictures is tag-enabled.Each image ...Oct. 30, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 403 |
 So, the first week "on the air" went very well. Not an easy week, but remarkable good. We rapidly increase our midstock and microstock collection of royalty free images and this keeps our hands busy all the time. The infrastructure we choose for www.pixamba.com is extremely versatile a...Oct. 30, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 435 |
 I am very excited to show you up some initial results of our hard work for quite a long time. Pixamba.com opens it doors for the contributors and image buyers. You are warmly welcome to join us and start selling your photos and illustrations with Pixamba. We offer high resolution stock...Oct. 30, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 379 |
 Today is finally the day that Umoo tournaments is coming out of private beta and into the public arena. I can now set up my own tournaments with a larger crowd, maybe I can push the magic “Invite my Facebook friends button’. Currently, I mostly play Fun games, without any entry fee tha...Oct. 29, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 585 |
 I recently added 20 yards of distance to every club in my golf bag with no effort whatsoever (and the chipping now is sublime). For the non-golfers out there, this is quite a significant improvement. I have played the game for about 15 years achieved a reasonable standard and plateaued...Oct. 29, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 362 |
 Sony Ericsson has time and again come up with exciting and rather different looking gadgets. They have revolutionized the music phone segment with the Walkman series, created waves in the camera phone segment with Cyber shot series apart from introducing exciting touchscreen phones. Th...Oct. 29, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 551 |
 By Tom Hopkins
When we give a presentation to a future client not only do our appearance, visual aids, and body language relay a message, but the words we use create pictures in their minds. When we hear a word, we often picture a symbol of what that word represents. We may even attac...Oct. 29, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 396 |
 Have we reached the point where email’s influence over our electronic lives is waning? It is hard to imagine, especially for those of us who grew up in the minicomputer/PC era. For two generations, email was the killer application. It delivered information reliably and within a few min...Oct. 29, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 885 |
 My long-time former PC Magazine colleague Al Poor has begun his own series of video reviews of consumer products on his YouTube channel here. You can find a new Epson photo printer, the Buffalo Terrastation, and other products. Like my WebInformant.tv series, they are sponsored by the ...Oct. 29, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 458 |
 By Tom Hopkins
In business situations, when you are trying to reach the person who has the authority to make decisions regarding your product you are very likely to have to go through one or more people before reaching that person. For the sake of efficiency, there will likely be a re...Oct. 29, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 507 |
 By Wendy Weiss
On a cold call you have approximately 10-30 seconds to grab your prospects’ attention—and you won’t get a second chance. Read on to discover how to gain your prospects’ attention…
I was eating lunch. The phone rang and thinking it might be a client calling (and also, l...Oct. 29, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 413 |
 Today's B2B marketers have more opportunity to positively impact sales revenue than ever before. Thanks to Web 2.0 we can attract prospects, begin our customer relationship, inform and entice qualified buyers - without ever directly engaging more expensive sales resources to nurture bu...Oct. 29, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 232 |
 Its hard to imagine that its been almost 25 years since my parents secretly smuggled many of our family members out of Iran due to brutal religious persecution. Persecution that is unfortunately picking up once again in todays time. A reader asked me to provide more info about this po...Oct. 28, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 328 |
 In this second article in the series I want to focus on the use of business intelligence and business analytics as it relates to mobile applications. If you are driving a vehicle and/or using a Smart Phone, you do not want to be doing a lot of research and analytics on your small scree...Oct. 28, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 483 |
 There was an interesting article by Bill Kauffman in the Wall Street Journal today (October 20, 2009) in the Bookshelf section called Where Home Is, The Heart Isn't. It talks about the book Hollowing Out the Middle by husband and wife sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas t...Oct. 28, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 593 |
 When speaking with a partner of a local law firm, he lamented about their database, "Just getting our holiday card list right requires a monumental effort!" Many times sales leads in the database are kept long past their shelf life which means they no longer hold any revenue potential...Oct. 28, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 516 |
 A Box Life is a cute idea for QR Codes sponsored by clothing firm Columbia as a recycling initiative. Put a tag on a cardboard box so that when the box is reused you can track the 'life' of the box. By snapping the tag and providing your location data or entering the tracking code prin...Oct. 28, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 373 |
 Kooaba's mobile image recognition (MIR) technology will be used in the November edition of Wired magazine (US) to link print advertisements to online content. Kooaba claims this as a US first. Oddly enough Wired online are also running a vstory on augmented reality (AR) here. The adva...Oct. 28, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 322 |
 I had the privilege of serving on the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation (now the Leader to Leader Institute) for ten years. Peter was a pioneer in understanding the impact of knowledge workers in the new economy. He simply defined knowledge workers as ‘people who know more about wh...Oct. 28, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 825 |
 "The Secret" was launched by Rhonda Byrne in 2006 and says that thoughts have an energy that attracts like energy and you attract into your life whatever you think about. This tool refers to what Buddha said: "What you have become is the result of what you have thought". It suggests th...Oct. 28, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 645 |
 I've been here before. I remember my first time. I was happy to know the teacher wanted to work with me, but then I went to the meeting and it was horrible. I decided my child should be present, expecting we were ready for solutions. Instead, I sat stunned as she told me how horrible a...Oct. 28, 2009 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 195 |
 Random thoughts on a lovely evening.Oct. 27, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 483 |
 Last week Google officially announced their newly formed partnership with Twitter. The officially statement indicates this partnership will allow social media updates on Twitter to appear in Google’s search results. Google also demonstrated their new Social Search feature at the Web ...Oct. 27, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 396 |
 After the storms have passed and the headlines with them, the hard work of recovery from major storms continues. The Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary is among those organizations that continue their good work around the clock.Oct. 26, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 213 |
 New equity option traders should familiarize themselves with 'the greeks' - like theta and delta - to maximize their potential trading gains. There are four primary option Greeks all option traders should become familiar with. Two of them generally need to be considered before choosing...Oct. 26, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 253 |
 Filing bankruptcy is never an easy decision for many people. But when a person is over burdened with debts then the there is no alternative left for him or her. Many believe that filing bankruptcy is the end of life which is not true. There is life even after that and here are a few p...Oct. 26, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 207 |
 There are different attorney fees for filing bankruptcy for chapter 7 and chapter 13, but they can be waived off completely if a financial hardship has been proven. The best advice in evaluating the attorney fee is to check upon the efficiency of the attorney or by getting an attorney ...Oct. 26, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 224 |
 There are basically two types of bankruptcy that one can file-chapter 7 and chapter 13.It is very important to understand the after effects of bankruptcy before one files it. There is a means test that one has to qualify for, in order to file a chapter 7 bankruptcy, because this requ...Oct. 26, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 233 |
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